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Paramedic: Bleeding
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03/03/2013

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What is the most common cause of shock after trauma?
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Bleeding 1519
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What is a series of metabolic processes the body uses to make energy?
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Cellular Respiration 1519
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What are the 3 steps of cellular respiration?
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Glycolysis, Citrus Acid Cycle, and Electron Transport Chain 1519
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What is the repetitive pumping process that begins with the onset of cardiac muscle contraction and ends with the beginning of the next contraction?
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The Cardiac Cycle 1520
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What is the amount of blood returned to the heart to be pumped out and directly affects the afterload?
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Preload 1520
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What is the pressure in the aorta or the peripheral vascular resistance, against which the left ventricle must pump blood?
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Afterload 1520
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What is the amount of blood ejected per contraction?
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Stroke Volume (SV) 1520
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What is the amount of blood pumped through the circulatory system in 1 minute?
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Cardiac Output 1520
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What is the percentage of blood that leaves the heart each time it contracts?
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Ejection Fraction 1521
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What are the oxygen-carrying pigment in red blood cells?
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Hemoglobin 1522
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What are red blood cells?
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Erythrocytes 1522
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What are white blood cells?
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Leukocytes 1522
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What are small cells in the blood that are essential for clot formation?
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Platelets 1522
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What is a blood test that measures the portion of RBCs in whole blood?
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Hematocrit 1522
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What is the circulation of blood within an organ or tissue in adequate amounts to meet the cells' current needs for oxygen, nutrients, and waste removal?
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Perfusion 1522
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What is a condition that occurs when the circulating blood volume is inadequate to deliver adequate oxygen and nutrients to the body?
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Hypoperfusion 1523
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What is stopping hemorrhage?
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Hemostatsis 1525
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What is lacking one or more of the blood clotting factors?
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Hemophilia 1525
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What an abnormal state associated with inadequate oxygen and nutrient delivery to the metabolic apparatus of the cell?
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Shock 1525
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What is a condition that occurs when the circulating blood volume is inadequate to deliver adequate oxygen and nutrients to the body?
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Hypovolemic Shock 1525
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What is volume lost as blood?
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Hemorrhagic Shock 1525
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What is the most common cause of shock?
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Hemorrhagic Shock 1526
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What is the most common symptom of internal hemorrhage?
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Pain 1529
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What is a mass of blood in the soft tissues beneath the skin; indicates bleeding into soft tissues and may be the result of a minor or a severe injury?
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Hematoma 1529
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What is vomited blood?
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Hematemesis 1529
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What is cough-up blood?
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Hemoptysis 1529
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What is black, foul-smelling, tarry stool that contains digested blood?
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Melena 1529
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What is blood in the urine?
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Hematuria 1529
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What is the passage of bloody stools?
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Hematochezia 1529
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